Swiss city places information boards next to Nazi memorial

The city of Chur in eastern Switzerland has erected four information boards next to the Nazi memorial in the Daleu cemetery. They are intended to place the grave in a historical context. The memorial stone dates back to 1938 and was part of a Nazi hero cult. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The panels are now intended to shed light on the various aspects of the memorial stone, the city of Chur wrote in a press release on Tuesday. These include its creation, the political and historical background, the inscriptions and the role of the Volksbund Deutscher Kriegsgräberfürsorge (German War Graves Commission). This organisation looked after fallen German soldiers and was very close to the Hitler government. Soldiers who died in Graubünden during the First World War are buried under the 13-tonne monument at the Daleu cemetery in Chur. + Most Swiss authorities want to ban Nazi symbols in public Wide-ranging debate The stone was discovered in 2023 by a journalist ...